Juergen Teller Quotes

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.